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STYLISTIC AND FUNCTIONAL PECULIARITIES OF TECHNICAL ADVERTISEMENT TEXTS

Fìlologìčnì traktati, 2021
Intensive exchange of scientific and technical information, important role of English in the intercultural scientific communication actualize the task to provide the information easy to read and analyze. The paper deals with stylistic and functional peculiarities of modern English scientific and technical texts, namely of technical advertisement texts.
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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‘Let me see it through your eyes’: Teaching grammar‐for‐writing as imaginative embodiment

Literacy, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 242-255, May 2025.
Abstract Effective professional development (PD) in teaching writing involves supporting teachers' knowledge of the writer's craft, including their thinking processes, linguistic knowledge and practical strategies for teaching these. Grammar‐for‐writing approaches support teachers' knowledge of how grammar creates meaningful effects in writing.
Brett Healey
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"Why can´t women talk like a man?": an investigation of gender in the play Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw [PDF]

, 2001
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoA complexa inter-relação entre linguagem e gênero tornou-se foco de várias discussões teóricas.
Gallardo, Bárbara Cristina
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On the Uses of Phenomenology in Sociological Research: A Typology, some Criticisms and a Plea

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 185-215, June 2024.
Abstract This paper aims to discern, clarify, criticise, and advocate some uses of phenomenology in sociological research. Phenomenology is increasingly evoked or implicitly employed in sociological endeavours. Little attention, however, is paid to what is entailed in taking a phenomenological approach, and whether it is employed to advance empirical ...
Sebastian Raza
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Coffeehouse Curiosities: Materiality and Musealization Strategies in The Athenian Mercury

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 77-94, March 2024.
Abstract Based on the epistolary interaction with readers, John Dunton's Athenian Mercury (1691–97) provided a platform for the discussion and dissemination of knowledge drawn from diverse fields. Plagued by doubts about its reliability, the periodical constantly had to (re‐)assert its credibility.
Jaroslaw Jasenowski
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The Letter‐Writing Manual and the Epistolary Novel

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 15-29, March 2024.
Abstract The relationship between real and fictional letters in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries has been the source of much critical debate. Disagreement surrounds the extent to which the increasingly popular genre of the epistolary novel drew on the practices and techniques of actual correspondence.
Joe Bray
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Between law and linguistics: Characteristics of legal language [PDF]

Baština
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the key features of legal language, both in legal studies and in linguistics, especially within functional stylistics, where legal language is studied as a specific subtype of the administrative-legal ...
Pavlović-Jovanović Jelena M.
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Using Interactive Fiction to Stimulate Metalinguistic Talk in the English Classroom

Literacy, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 48-57, January 2024.
Abstract Interactive Fiction (IF)—a digital form of non‐linear narrative writing—requires readers to respond, to make choices that shape their reading experience. I argue that such choices can be put to use in the classroom, helping teachers to facilitate metalinguistic talk.
Sam Holdstock
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An Assessment of architectural stylistics and functional spatial structure of interwar Lithuanian schools in the global context

, 2018
Reikšminiai žodžiai: Mokyklų architektūra; Architektūros stiliai; Funkcinė erdvės struktūra; Istorizmas; Tarpukario architektūra; Modernizmas; Architecture of schools; Architectural styles; Functional spatial structure; Historicism; Interwar architecture;
Brukštutė, Grėtė
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